Why business needs should shape IT architecture - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Organization
"Too often, efforts to fix architecture issues remain rooted in a company’s IT practices, culture, and leadership. The reason, in part, is that the chief architect—the overall IT-architecture program leader—is frequently selected from within the technical ranks, bringing deep IT know-how but little direct experience or influence in leading a business-wide change program. A weak linkage to the business creates a void that limits the quality of the resulting IT architecture and the organization’s ability to enforce and sustain the benefits of implementation over time." -- Helge Buckow and Stéphane Rey
(tags: architecture it technology enterprise mckinsey)
Eric Maurice: April 2010 Critical Patch Update Released
Eric Maurice offers the details on April 2010 Critical Patch Update (CPUApr2010), "the first one to include security fixes for Oracle Solaris"
(tags: oracle otn database fusionmiddleware peoplesoft security)
@shivmohan: Oracle – OAF – Oracle Application Framework – OA Framework
"For all the PL/SQL and Oracle Forms developers out there, start planning your evolution. Sure PL/SQL and Forms will be around for some time, but you need to add more skills to your stack if you want to stay current (employable)." --
Shivmohan Purohit
(tags: oracle otn application framework)
@ORACLENERD: APEX Architecture
Oracle ACE Chet Justice offer a "short list of potential architectures" for Oracle APEX, based on his experience with a client.
(tags: oracle otn oracleace apex architecture)
Luis Moreno Campos: Why is Exadata so fast?
"You could find a lot of tech doc around oracle.com, but the bottom line is that the vision to even build a V2 and place it as an OLTP and DW (general purpose) machine is just pure genius." -- Luis Moreno Campos
(tags: oracle otn exadata database)
Edwin Biemond: Resetting Weblogic datasources with ANT
Oracle ACE and Whitehorses architect Edwin Biemond shares an ANT script "to fire some WLST and Python commandos" to correct invalid database session states.
(tags: oracle otn oracleace database ANT Python)
@deltalounge: The future of MySQL with Oracle
Peter Paul van de Beek has compiled an informative collection of Edward Scriven quotes, from various publications, on Oracle's plans for MySQL.
(tags: oracle otn database mysql)
Cristobal Soto: Coherence Special Interest Group: First Meeting in Toronto, Upcoming Events in New York and California
Cameron Purdy, Patrick Peralta, and others are speaking at upcoming Coherence SIG events. Cristobal Soto shares the details.
(tags: oracle otn coherence sig grid appserver)
